Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: twenties
IPA transcription: [tw'ɛntiz]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: twenties, mid-twenties
    Meaning: the time of life between 20 and 30
  • Synonyms: twenties, 1920s
    Meaning: the decade from 1920 to 1929
Usage examples
  • This, combined with the reflexes of a Winner of the Twenties, was barely enough to enable him to survive.
  • There were a good many thousands of boys in England at that time, in the Twenties and Thirties, who might have been badly off when the terrible Fifties came, if Florence Nightingale had not played with her dolls. Read on, and see for yourselves!